stokers
- plural of stoker.
Example Sentences
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Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stokers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on steps, and posts, and palings, wiping their swarthy visages, and contemplating coals.
From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles
Stokers were enlisted, in a similar way, from those working on land-boilers.
From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William
Thereafter he contributed to the Quarterly Review, and repub. his articles as Stokers and Pokers—Highways and Byways, and wrote a Life of Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
Speeches were afterward made by Mr. Feray d'Essonnes, president of the Syndical Chamber of Conductors, Enginemen, and Stokers, and by Prof. Comberousse, of the Central School, who broadly outlined the life of Papin.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various
